Today, my pal Rachel is talking about Making it Not Suck. I read her blog post this morning and had to laugh because…IT IS SO TRUE!
Few people enjoy training, and when the training is terribly done or ineffective, it makes people perceive the job the training was to address as even being very sucky…and in turn may cause these folks to perceive their job as a whole sucky. I felt compelled to write a bit about this today because 1 – she hit the nail on the head, and 2 – one of my former Instructional Design colleagues texted me last week to tell me how great some typically terrible HR training was. She had to take some corporate training, and it didn’t suck. So much so that she felt obliged to tell me about how great it was because she knew I would appreciate it. And I did!
Within my current role, I encounter a lot of faculty members who have a bitter taste in their mouth about online learning and the technological knowledge required to develop and deliver the learning experiences. A lot of them dread teaching online – it veers from their traditional approach, it makes them feel as though they aren’t teaching, and they’re too darn busy to learn something new. I get it. The struggle is real. So what I strive to do when working with these folks is make the inevitable suck less (e.g. the technical training and their course development) and hopefully make them feel as though they’re sucking less when they use these technologies to deliver their training (or more confident).
Additionally, when you encounter well-developed and effective training solutions, you feel will likely feel more positive about doing your job (or even participating in required training opportunities) which may in turn make other things in your life feel more positive (positivity is contagious)!
Thanks for the post, Rachel! It was definitely accurate and extremely relevant.
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